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  A Splash of color! and a bigger splash of water.

  

  colorful pictures! Also, something or other about MIT, because that's my job ... ?); by 'MIT', I mean my friend Michele and a few of her cohorts in the ... awesome experience. My friend Maysarah, from my (local) high school attended

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hail to the king, baby. The coolest thing that never happened to me... plus, the journey back Boston way.

  

  seriously, yesterday was almost the coolest day of my life, ever, and it just ... Campbell is, right? From "Xena: Warrior Princess?" (my favorite television ... he was, but she was busy entertaining her mother. So, since my mother

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  I moved to Maine just a wisconsin girl in an east coast world

  

  the sadness of it all, me and my roommate decided to paint a mural on ... HELLO. So the last three weeks of my life have been absolutely ... ): Decided I wasn’t going home Packed up my entire dorm room Walked through

  • by Powers '23
  • March 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Perfect weekend Sun, fun, and Plymouth Rock.

  

  proverbial creek without the proverbial paddle tomorrow if I didn't split my ... reservoir of parental TechCash money, and I actually have to pay for all my ... ate my soup and sandwich outside in Kendall Square while reading a book

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  alone in cologne homesickness, better late than never

  

  again. So, last Sunday, I set off without my roommate to take a day trip ... said goodbye to my parents ten times. The first time they dropped me off at MIT, my mom couldn’t contain her tears. Holding my hand, she was the

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living the MEng life same, different, same

  

  some ways, there's more camaraderie, because I'm closer with my roommates ... so I’m not done grading yet, and all my roommates are playing a board ... undergrads, and with an application that took me and my friends about 20

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 27, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Ninth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 02/14/06.

  

  . ------------------------------------- Raghav wrote: "I have a question similar to John's. I do IB and my school ... well in two of my classes but well in the rest?" Slipping a bit will not ... least a 100 point difference SAT-wise between my writing and CR scores

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poker, Mountains, and Magic The four words of this title have no other exact match on Google

  

  Upon opening my closet this morning - brightly lit with glorious ... finished redecorating my dorm room to constantly remind me of my ... pretty poster and a cute saying are all it takes to motivate you, you

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 6, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too…

  

  This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too busy ... audience, all of us mentally picturing images of cute, fuzzy baby birds. So I ... blinds, and one-touch parties..." My favorite quote from the site: When

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I AM CONNECTED! Finally arriving on campus was way less exciting than finally getting my wireless connection to…

  

  from my own room in Burton-Conner on my new (to me) laptop and will soon be posting it to my blog thanks to my wireless Internet connection. I drove up the East Coast on Saturday morning (well ok, my parents drove

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  IAP Cooking a journey of uncooked pasta and cold pho

  

  ="aligncenter" width="437"] cake my roommate and friend surprised me with![/caption] A ... opportunities."]IAP,[/annotation]I didn't. Simultaneously, my friends and I ... . I'm much more of a baker than a cook, and my friends also didn't have

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 10, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Low Balance A epic story of Chinese food, heartbreak, and loss. All because I have no TechCash.

  

  couple things: not picking my clothes up off the floor (no roommate, no mom ... bought lunch at Stata, handed over my ID and was alarmed to see that little "low warning" sign. I have $1.70 in my TechCash account, and the reason

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Getting Stronger the never ending cycle of trying and failing and trying again

  

  the Stata gym with my roommate, my legs hurt so much I was mentally ... . All I had was dread. My roommate always tells me I need to focus more ... Last week, I started lifting. Again.  During my last semester here

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Conversations with graders And other ramblings of a frosh...

  

  , my roommate's dad was in the entering class that was welcomed to MIT ... As promised in my last entry, it has been quite a week! Tuesday ... my corny little flashlight: Now I can use a milling machine and a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Balancing Act… ...or not

  

  being overloaded. Convinces my roommate to go grocery shopping with me ... in the slightest because that will Interrupt My Rhythm and Ruin ... out of my comfort zone in this sense by forcing me to deal with my fear

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  F=-kx spring break in nova scotia, nyc, and dc

  

  quarter, I felt like a spring. Specifically, like an undamped oscillator. My ... response force I'd feel on my energy levels. Calmness remained at a distance ... days became less packed. My graph dampened into a steady state. [image

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where did my Summer Go? Written 30,000 feet above the ground in a giant piece of metal

  

  summer, my roommate and I were place in a Marriott Residence Inn while we ... stayed so many nights, my roommate and I split the Marriott rewards points ... So much has happened this summer. I mentioned in my last post, They

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 15, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Video games I’ve played this semester trimps, mother 3, hades, and vampire survivors

  

  Here's my previous video game posts: Incremental games Celeste ... in my Steam library that I'm working through. The trouble is that I ... rate than adding them to my to-play list. Oops! Trimps Trimps is an

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  a love letter to rice cookers and a recipe

  

  [/caption] This rice cooker holds a special place in my heart compared to our other kitchen appliances. It originally belonged to my aunt, but she sent it to my ... my guesses for the reason.  A mother’s cooking is and will always be

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Felines of Fifth West meow meow

  

  around and hang out with me in my room or under my bed. One thing I have ... ground. No major injuries either time, and one of the times it was my ... probably get annoyed about if most of my human friends did that, but with

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 18, 2015